Though some fascinating new designs are on the go, recession seems to affect Motorola in a real bad way and perhaps that’s why the company has announced to cut executive pay and freezing pensions’ plans in the US.

The company has announced that it will freeze pension plans for employees, permanently, in the United States from March 09. The company will suspend (for the time being) own contribution in these plans from the next month.

The company has also announced that during next year, there would be no increase in salaries in the countries where the company is operating. …read the rest of this entry»

It’s an open secret that like Motorola, Sony Ericsson (SE) brand is on decline worldwide and the company is putting its utmost efforts to halt that decline. Now Sony Ericsson has decided to get parent company Sony more involved as it has called in the brand name Bravia.

No doubt, there is a big difference between phone maker and its parent company’s success. Arun Sehti, President of Sony Ericsson India, has announced that Bravia phone will be available in this region soon.

“We have successfully integrated the Bravia brand in the handset business in Japan and soon we will do the same in India,” Sethi stated.

In recent handsets, the Walkman and Cybershot brands have already been leveraged by the company and they were quite successful, particularly, in Europe. …read the rest of this entry»